Receipt [135-6 AD]
Receipt for for various taxes, including dike work
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 10797
Receipt for vineyard tax and naubion TM 10797Bakchias (Arsinoites)135 CE – 136 CE
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Fragment of a tax receipt from Bakchias in the Arsinoite nome, dated AD 135-136, recording payments including a tax on vineyards for the 19th year and the naubion dike tax. Only the final lines with the totals survive.
In English machine translation
[… 6 lines lost …]
(tax on) vineyards of the nineteenth year […]
Total 11 drachmas 1 1/2 obols; naubion 3 obols 2 chalkoi; extra charges
The naubion was a tax for the upkeep of dikes and canals; prosdiagraphomena were supplementary charges added to the main payment. The 19th year is presumably that of Hadrian (AD 134/5).
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt [135-6 AD]). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.fay.192
[… 6 lines lost …] ἀμπελώνων ἐννεακαιδεκάτου ἔτους[…] γίνονται δραχμ ια ὀβολ α 𐅵, ναυβίου ὀβολ γ χαλκ β, προσδιαγραφόμενα